Disk over Salford · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Expecting a storm and was looking up at the clouds hoping to see some lightning but spotted a disc type craft that looked metallic on top but dark and hard to see at the bottom. After checking the ring doorbell to see what it had captured, there was a eerie shrieking noise that was not heard by either of us at that time. The sighting lasted a few moments, maybe a minute or so then moved off relatively fast until it were out of sight. Have a photo taken on my mobile phone and a file from the ring doorbell that captured the noise (about 8 seconds in)
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171668). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2022-09-04 → 2022-09-21
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